Sentences with phrase «of a rhino»

Use of rhino horn in Traditional Chinese Medicine [TCM below] and Traditional Oriental Medicine dates back centuries.

The poaching of rhinos in South Africa has increased by more than three rhinos a week on average since Environmental Minister Edna Molewa called for...

The skull of a rhino poached in Sumatra in 2005, on display at the rhino protection unit headquarters just outside Way Kambas National Park, is a testament to the brutality of poaching.

2012 is on track to seeing a record number of rhino deaths from poaching — but conservationists have turned to the internet in hopes of reducing that grim figure by two.

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That incidentally has made it easy for war - time poachers to kill them the rare northern species of the rhino around its lone wild habitat, the Garamba National Park, also in Congo.

The decline of the rhino population in Sabah has been documented in detail for the first time in this new study.

If the killings of rhino continue at this rate, total losses for 2013 will equate to around 55 - 60, almost double the number killed in 2012.

Media coverage hyping the supposed use of rhino horn to pump up sex drive does no favors for conservation efforts

The researchers used mathematical models to reconstruct the decline of the rhino population in the Tabin Wildlife Reserve (TWR) in the Malayan state Sabah of Borneo.

The level design is purely amazing, it ranges from normal platforming, swinging from vines, minecarts, underwater levels, rocket barrels and even riding on the back of a rhino.

We also have the rampage of diseased rhesus monkeys in Florida, the mass stranding of dolphins on Cape Cod, the tragic death of a rhino during an anti-poaching destination and more.

«Leopard - skin coats, ivory gewgaws and the Chinese belief in the medicinal properties of rhino horn.

I've heard the rumblings of the rhino charging after me in rage, even after I left the church.

To everyone but a Belizean, they are remarkably ugly creatures, bulky, long - nosed relatives of the rhino and the horse.

Heavy rain kept us from penetrating deep into the surrounding Lorogi Forest, so we had no chance to check for signs of rhino or elephant.

Senior environmental crime scene investigator Frik Rossouw uses a metal detector to search the decaying body of a rhino poached in Kruger National Park.

Birds called oxpeckers gobble ticks off the skin of rhinos and zebras.

Nonetheless, poaching of rhinos continues to occur at an alarming rate throughout South Africa where the world's rhino population primarily exists.

CITES banned the commercial sale of rhino horn, which caused black market sales to sky rocket and encouraged poaching.

«The previously poorly regulated trophy hunting of rhinos fed horns into illegal supply chains and helped stimulate the current upsurge in rhino poaching.

«In the case of the rhino, you don't do it because you're sure that you will succeed, but you do it because you feel it's the right thing to do.»

Interpol's researchers found 21 ads on the darknet for products made of rhino horns, ivory, and tiger parts, during a period ranging from December of 2016 to April of this year.

I keep thinking of the rhino sucking that poor girl up his nostril.

Has there been scientific research into the effectiveness of rhino horn in medicine?

Animal studies done in the UK and South Africa found no pharmacological effects of rhino horn — or any other animal horns.

October 19: A 1515 woodcut of a rhino and Robert Hooke's 1667 illustration of a flea star in «Natural Histories,» an exhibit of images from rare books in New York's American Museum of Natural History Library.

But today, Africa's rhinos once again are facing extinction, despite a 1977 ban on the selling of rhino parts by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

They're doing it by comparing the DNA profiles of items confiscated from suspects — like a horn or a smear of blood — to a database that contains DNA profiles for thousands of rhino carcasses identified as the victims of poaching.

In South Africa and Namibia, a strong conservation ethic — coupled with financial incentives for ownership, management and protection of rhinos for tourism and legal trophy hunting — gradually helped to reduce poaching and restore rhino numbers.

About 300,000 years ago, herds of rhino - sized creatures migrated across the floodplains of east - central Australia, mimicking the treks that zebras and antelopes make across Africa's Serengeti today.

Not everyone is sold on the value of a rhino database.

Here, the scientists analysed data collected over a span of 13 years and identified the characteristics describing the preferred habitat of the rhinos.

Data necessary to improve decisions for conservation management of the rhinos was missing or fragmentary.

«Scientific evaluation of rhino diets improves zoo: Study highlights success of changing diet for reproduction in endangered species.»

He just obtained «a wonderful huge head of a rhino,» which required a bigger freezer in his lab.

Zoologists knew little about the reproductive rhythms of rhinos, breeding facilities rarely housed a good mix of males and females, and disagreements over whether the Sabah rhino was a subspecies of the Sumatran rhino meant that there was little cooperation between Indonesia and Malaysia and even between Peninsular Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo.

At the end of March, Hildebrandt and two of his IZW colleagues flew back to Sabah on a uterine - rescue mission, accompanied by huge suitcases filled with veterinary paraphernalia: green scrubs, anaesthetics, antibiotics, drips, probes, a carbon - fibre catheter patented by Hildebrandt and his colleagues for the insemination of rhinos, and a gun case containing a 2 - metre - long video endoscope tailor - made to fit Puntung's reproductive tract.

If she is ever to reproduce, she will need Thomas Hildebrandt and his veterinary team from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) in Berlin to rescue her womb — and then push the boundaries of rhino assisted - reproduction to new extremes.

It is a stinging irony that by far the biggest donor to BORA is the Sime Darby Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Sime Darby Group, based in Kuala Lumpur, one of the world's biggest producers of palm oil, the crop that led to the destruction of much of the rhino's rainforest home.

Black Panther: proud ruler of a country by day, punisher of rhino poachers by night.

Deadly bugs, bats, crazy monkeys, stampedes of rhinos and elephants, quicksand and more are the perils of the game, and in one fateful turn, young Alan disappears into the depths of the jungle — at least until another player rolls a 5 or 8.

The original Jumanji was one of the first movies to sell itself on its use computer generated images — folks lined up in 1995 to see the then - novel spectacle of rhinos rampaging through suburbia.

The «heavy - duty» suspension has all the poise and composure of a rhino on crack.

Their first sight of rhinos, a mother and calf, is the thrilling centerpiece of the book, at once exhilarating and frightening.

The area is credited with being the birthplace of rhino preservation, as it was here in 1900 that a project was launched to try and increase their numbers.

Nature fans should also head south to the Royal Chitwan National Park, to comb the grasslands and forests in search of rhino and tiger.